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:shipit: Cocoa framework for updating OS X apps :shipit:
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Bootstrap an .app with Squirrel.Mac just with an URL on a Squirrel server #198

Closed Skywalker13 closed 7 years ago

Skywalker13 commented 7 years ago

Hello,

I would like to use Squirrel.Mac in order to install a .app which is not already installed. I can do that with Squirrel.Windows because Update.exe is provided as a standalone application and doing Update.exe --update=http://my.repository will download the last version and install this version where Update.exe is located. It's very useful for bootstrapping an app on the client. Just put Update.exe in the right %localappdata% directory, call it and the magic happens.

But I cannot see any possibilities for doing that with Squirrel.Mac. Have you a tool where it's possible to pass a squirrel URL in order to bootstrap a first installation please?

I looked for ShipIt but it seems that it's just for deploying from the cache to the final destination.

Thanks, Regards

joshaber commented 7 years ago

No, Squirrel.Mac doesn't provide anything like that.

Mac apps generally shouldn't require installation. Users should be able to drop them wherever they want and they should work.

Skywalker13 commented 7 years ago

Yep that's the problem.. the user can not do that because our electron app is used like a service. This "service" is installed by the main application according to some conditions. Then it downloads the service if the conditions are met. It works perfectly with Squirrel.Windows for this purpose.

So, I will write my own "UpdateMac" tool in order to mimic the needed Update.exe stuff.